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Era 4 · Series B

Tail-based sampling

Keeps slow and failed traces: twice the Failure Insight.

Prerequisites#

Research these first: Distributed tracing.

Tail-based sampling

Track: Observability
Era: Series B
Cost
Requires: Distributed tracing

See also

Research treeEvery Research item by track and Era: what it costs in Insight, what it needs first, and what it unlocks.

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